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The 6.270 Robot Builder’s Guide
for the 1992 M.I.T. LEGO Robot Design Competition
Project Conceived and Developed by: Fred Martin, Pankaj Oberoi, and Randy Sargent This Document Created by: Fred Martin
The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide
Copyright c 1992 by Fred G. Martin Second edition, December 1992. The author hereby grants to M.I.T. permission to reproduce and to distribute copies of this document in whole or in part. This document may also be distributed freely in verbatim form (in whole or in part) provided that no fee is collected for its distribution (other than reasonable reproduction costs) and this copyright notice is included. Other than verbatim copies with copyright notice intact, no part of this document may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the author. For example, the author does not grant the right to make derivative works based on this document without written consent. To obtain additional copies of this document, write to: The Epistemology and Learning Group The Media Laboratory The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames Street Room E15{309 Cambridge, MA 02139 This document may also be obtained in electronic form (in PostScript (R) les) via anonymous FTP to cherupakha.media.mit.edu (Internet address 18.85.0.47).
Section 1.1, \Electronic Assembly Technique," is based on a previous version written by Pankaj Oberoi. Chapter 4, \LEGO Design," was co-authored with Randy Sargent.
a This document was typeset by the L TEX text formatting system running on a DECstation 5000 computer. The psfig macro (written by Trevor Darrell) was used for including a PostScript (R) gures in L TEX documents. dvips version 5.478 was used to create nal PostScript output.
Many diagrams were created with the idraw X-windows-based drawing program, distributed by the MIT Athena computer network. Electrical circuit schematics were drawn using the DesignWorks (R) software package, distributed by Douglas Electronics, Inc., running on a...